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ALM Expo and Ottawa, Canada - September 15, 2005 - Neuma Technology today announced the availability of a
cross-platform Hot-Standby Disaster Recovery capability for CM+. The
technology permits users to instantly switch to a secondary site in
the event of a failure of their primary site.

Neuma’s hot-standby disaster recovery is derived
from its CM+ Multi-Site product that permits a CM+ repository to be
replicated and continually synchronized across multiple locations,
whether overseas or down the hall.

Neuma clearly understands the importance of disaster
recovery capability in today’s post 9/11 world. Not only can a
user see (and update) identical information using a different site,
but the sites do not even have to be using the same platform
technology. One site may be running Linux, another a Microsoft
server and another Unix - different architectures, but the same
repository, allowing the greatest flexibility for protecting your
most valuable electronic resources.

“A NASA software development site, shutdown by
either a natural or man-made disaster, does not have to be brought
back on-line before its developers and contractors can get back to
work. They simply switch sites and continue working from where they
left off,” explains Joe Farah, Neuma’s President and CEO.

The biggest surprise is how easy it is to setup and
administer. CM+ uses Neuma’s STS repository transaction
technology to significantly reduce bandwidth requirements and
minimize administration. The disaster recovery capability may be used
in conjunction with either a CM+ MultiSite deployment or with a CM+
Enterprise single site. In the former configuration, users at any of
the sites see the same set of information and can commit transactions
against their local site. Each of the other sites act as a
hot-standby site.

The disaster recovery capabilities, like their CM+
MultiSite counterparts, cover all transactions in the application
life cycle – source code, requirements, problem reports, test
cases, documents, changes, build records, and so forth. There is no
need to establish separate recovery capabilities for each
application.

The disaster recovery solution is built on Neuma’s
advanced STS architecture, which sequences the transactions so that
they may be applied at any site without having to wait for other
sites to apply them. The disaster recovery software automatically
recovers from network outages.

“We wanted to do this right. We’ve worked
through all of the issues – intermittent network outages, slow
networks, bottlenecks. We also made sure that we could do this
across the most common platforms – Unix/Linux and Windows”,
added Farah. “Then we targeted a zero-administration goal,
including setup. We’re just about there – setup still
takes a few minutes and we want to add additional monitors to detect
things like disk space running out.”

It doesn’t take a major disaster for the
technology to pay off either. As Farah recalls, “I remember
the first time Neuma had a major server disk crash and didn’t
have to rush to backup tapes and hardware. We simply switched over
and continued working. Then we brought up a new site to restore our
protection. I’m sure our customers appreciate us using our own
technology in-house.”